A posture measurement system for the treatment of scoliosis

Author

Lou, E. ; Hill, D.L. ; Raso, V.J. ; Durdle, N.G.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Rehab. Tech., CHA-Glenrose Rehabilitation Hosp., Edmonton, Alta., Canada

Volume

1

fYear

1999

fDate

1999

Firstpage

354

Abstract

A battery-powered posture measurement system has been developed to monitor the topographical features of a scoliotic trunk. The system consists of an electromagnetic measurement system and a microcomputer data acquisition system. The polar coordinates of up to 8 receivers relative to the transmitter can be determined. Laboratory tests showed that the maximum distance error was 0.5 cm and the maximum angle error was 5 degrees in the range of 30 to 47 cm. This system is applied to help adolescents who have scoliosis attain a more balanced posture with the use of feedback preliminary clinical trials were done and showed that the system was able to detect the postural changes

Keywords

biomedical measurement; calibration; computerised instrumentation; data acquisition; distance measurement; electromagnetic devices; medical computing; 30 to 47 cm; angle error; balanced posture; clinical trials; electromagnetic measurement; feedback; laboratory tests; microcomputer data acquisition; polar coordinates; postural changes; posture measurement; scoliotic trunk; spine; topographical features; treatment of scoliosis; Anthropometry; Data acquisition; Electromagnetic measurements; Goniometers; Humans; Magnetic field measurement; Magnetic sensors; Microcomputers; Sensor arrays; Vibration measurement;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference, 1999. IMTC/99. Proceedings of the 16th IEEE

Conference_Location

Venice

ISSN

1091-5281

Print_ISBN

0-7803-5276-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IMTC.1999.776775

Filename

776775